Grand duke
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Grand duke is a European hereditary title, used either by certain monarchs or by members of certain monarchs' families. The title is used in some current and former independent monarchies in Europe ti
1860 postage stamp of the Grand Duchy of Finland
Portrait of Leo I, King of Ruthenia and Grand Duke of Kiev (18th-century painting)
Portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Fiodorovna by Heinrich von Angeli (1874) Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum
Archduke
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Archduke, or in feminine form Archduchess was a title of nobility in the Holy Roman Empire, and later in the Austrian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It denoted a rank above the duke, but be
Grand duke
…Grand dukes and grand duchesses from Russia were styled as "Imperial Highness" (HIH), being members of the Russian Imperial Family. Archduke Fürst…
Archducal hat, the coronet of the Archduchy of Austria kept in the treasury of Klosterneuburg Abbey
The use of archducal title in depiction of its first claimant, Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
Depiction of the archducal crown in a portrait of Frederick III
The use of archducal title in an illustrated cover for the 1512 copy of Privilegium maius, devised for the Emperor Maximilian I